UWS 1.01UWS 1.01Academic staff. “Academic staff" means professional and administrative personnel, other than faculty and university staff, with duties and types of appointments that are primarily associated with higher education institutions or their administration.

UWS 1.03UWS 1.03Department. “Department" means a group of faculty members recognized by the faculty and chancellor of the institution, and the Board of Regents, as dealing with a common field of knowledge or as having a common or closely related disciplinary or interdisciplinary interest.

UWS 1.04UWS 1.04Faculty. “Faculty" means persons who hold the rank of professor, associate professor, assistant professor, or instructor in an academic department or its functional equivalent in an institution. The appointment of a member of the academic staff may be converted to a faculty appointment in accordance with s. UWS 3.01 (1) (c).

UWS 1.05UWS 1.05Faculty status. By action of the appropriate faculty body and chancellor of an institution, members of the academic staff may be designated as having “faculty status." “Faculty status"means a right to participate in faculty governance of an institution in accordance with the rules of the institution. Faculty status does not confer rank or tenure, or convert an academic staff appointment into a faculty appointment.